(April 2021)
Humanitarian Action Grant for projects addressing Disaster Response, Refugees & Displaced People, Human Rights, and Needs of Women & Children
Deadline: 31-May-21
Microsoft is inviting Proposals to support projects which improve operational efficiency, enable new capabilities, increase beneficiary engagement, or involve rich data analysis for classification and prediction modeling…[more]
MIT Solve accepting Proposals for Health Security & Pandemics Challenge
Deadline: 16-Jun-21
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve is currently accepting proposals for its Health Security & Pandemics Challenge. The MIT Solve community is looking for technology-based solutions that protect all people—especially those most underserved and at risk because of their race, ethnicity, age, gender, or income—from the impacts of disease outbreaks…[more]
Humanitarian Aid Program: US$10,000 Grant Funding for NGOs
Deadline: 01-Sep-21
The ISTAT Foundation is accepting applications for its 2021 Humanitarian Aid Program that provides grant funding for humanitarian organizations across the globe that use the power of aviation to help save lives, promote human welfare and alleviate the suffering…[more]
WWSF Prize for Women’s Creativity in Rural Life
Deadline: 30 April 2021
Awarded since 1994 by the Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF), an international, nonprofit, humanitarian NGO, serving the implementation of women’s and children’s rights and the UN development agenda – the Prize (US$ 1000 per laureate) honors women and women’s groups around the world exhibiting exceptional creativity, courage and commitment for the improvement of the quality of life in rural communities…[more]
COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund
Deadline: 28 May 2021
The U.S. Department of State, Office of Global Partnerships (E/GP) is pleased to announce the COVID-19 Private Sector Engagement & Partnership Fund (Fund) Annual Program Statement (APS) that will be used make assistance awards. Through this APS, the Department of State (DOS) announces its desire to engage private sector partners to expand and amplify the Department’s COVID-19 response. The Fund seeks to support private sector interventions and build upon private sector investments in response to the virus. The DOS broadly categorizes the private sector to include: U.S. corporations, foreign corporations, foundations, faith-based organizations, non-governmental organizations, civil society groups, Diaspora groups, service organizations, universities another institutions of learning…[more]
5th Call for Proposals for Innovative Climate Risk Insurance
Deadline: 16 April 2021
InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) is pleased to launch the 5th call for proposals for the Innovative Climate Risk Insurance. The ISF especially welcomes project concepts targeting the sectors most vulnerable to effects of the pandemic, such as critical infrastructure, emergency relief and financial support of (M)SMEs, with products focusing on providing coverage against climate change related perils such as flood, wind/storm, excess rain, drought/heat wave, cold spells (in combination with others)…[more]
Call for Proposals: Strengthening the Role of Social Partners in Mitigating the Economic and Social Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
Deadline: 26-Apr-21
The call aims at supporting exchanges and dissemination of good practices, innovative approaches and experience, and mutual learning at European level in order to sustain social dialogue activities in the context of the COVID-19 crisis…[more]
Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2021
Deadline: 09-Jun-21
The Global Development Network (GDN) invites non-profit Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from low and lower-middle-income countries to submit project applications within the following three themes for the 2021 edition of the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project 2021…[more]
Second Call: EL*C Emergency Grants for Lesbian Groups
Deadline: Ongoing
EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community is pleased to announce the 2nd call for EL*C Emergency Grants for Lesbian Groups that are in urgent need of financial support due to the Covid-19 crisis…[more]
Call for Proposals: The Destructions of the Amazon in Pandemic Times
Deadline: 15-Apr-21
In response to the severe impact of the pandemic, the Amazonia Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF) and the Pulitzer Center are opening a new call for proposals for journalism grants to cover stories about the region in the times of a pandemic…[more]
Call for Expressions of Interest: Women’s Economic Empowerment in a Low-Carbon COVID-19 Recovery
Deadline: 13-Apr-21
This call for expressions of interest aims to advance the generation and use of context-specific evidence that can contribute to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South in the context of responses in lower-income countries to the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing climate crisis…[more]
Call for Proposals for Protecting Civic Space in Asia-Pacific during COVID-19
Deadline: 31-May-21
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) is pleased to invite proposals for grants as part of its project to counter COVID-related restrictions on civic freedoms and protect civic space during the pandemic…[more]
Call for Proposals: Strengthening the Role of Social Partners in Mitigating the Economic and Social Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
Deadline: 26-Apr-21
The call aims at supporting exchanges and dissemination of good practices, innovative approaches and experience, and mutual learning at European level in order to sustain social dialogue activities in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and help national social partners to continue playing their important role in developing and implementing joint responses or contributing to national efforts to protect jobs and support economic recovery strategies…[more]
Bureau of DRL: Balkans Media and Civil Society Program
Deadline: 26 April 2021
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open competition for organizations interested in submitting applications for projects that strengthen independent media and civil society in Balkan countries…[more]
Novo Nordisk Fonden announces Humanitarian Support Program (Denmark)
Deadline: 10-May-21
Novo Nordisk Fonden is accepting applications for the Humanitarian Support Program to support humanitarian initiatives and actions targeting vulnerable populations affected by a sudden onset and/or protracted humanitarian crises. The Humanitarian Support open call for applications is a biannual call (spring and fall)…[more]
Palladium: Innovative Concepts for COVID-19 Economic Relief and Adaptation (Sri Lanka)
Deadline: 15-May-21
The Palladium is implementing a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded program and is seeking qualified sources to implement activities that will respond to the economic effects of the novel Coronavirus pandemic(COVID-19) in Sri Lanka…[more]
Empowering Women through Safe Gender Responsive Food Markets during COVID19 (Zimbabwe)
Deadline: 14-Apr-21
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) is inviting applications for its “Empowering women through safe gender responsive food markets during COVID19” programme to support the empowerment of vulnerable women marketers for recovery and resilience from socio economic shocks…[more]
Bureau of PRM 2021 Pakistan Call for Proposals
Deadline: 09-Apr-21
PRM’s mandate to provide protection, assistance, and sustainable solutions for refugees and victims of conflict, PRM will consider funding only those programs that include a target beneficiary base of at least 50 percent Proof of Registration (POR) cardholding refugees…[more]
